i've noticed a few *I'm OLD* posts recently . . .

[Bullwinkle925]

as one who is literally days away from 59 - (this thursday) . . .

i ask you to please:

embrace your grey hairs
embrace the fact that you do not recognize music groups like you used to
embrace the fact of being in your *20's/30's*
hell - embrace the fact of being in your *40's*

i do believe that now i'm entering into the final year of my *50's* - i feel wonderul, fresh, vibrant, perhaps even sexy!? i still have a lot to learn and a lot to give back.
our bodies will age - our minds will age - our spirits will still soar -

take it from one of the *60's Children* - things in life are really what you make of it - and one's age is truly JUST A NUMBER.

now i will remove myself from my soapbox and go about my day - here's wishing each and every one of you a good life!!

[RebelOne]

1. I'm 69 and grateful that I have lived this long

with no outstanding health issues (that I know of). I hope to live at least another 15 years.

[Bullwinkle925]

2. i wish that for you as well . . . .

since we have no idea how many days we've been given - truly enjoy each and every one of them!!

[Skittles]

9. I love that old quote

"If I had known I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself." :D

[Bullwinkle925]

15. isn't that the truth?

that's why i began working out with a trainer . . . .

trying to reverse some of the damage i've done in the past 10 yrs. or so.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. I LOVE my gray hairs and balding head

...They get me the Senior discount at the Golden Corral- even tho' I'm "only" 53... :evilgrin:

[Bullwinkle925]

4. there are always pluses to everything, eh??

hehehehehehhehehehhehe

[Orsino]

5. Getting older generally beats the alternative. n/t

[Bullwinkle925]

8. absolutely does!!!

:toast:

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. I look at it this way:

I'm still 26. I've just done it twice, so now I'm a lot better at it. :)

[Bullwinkle925]

7. you're older than i am . . . . .

mentally - i'm around, oh, 18-25

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. If I felt that young

I'd be a doofozoid around women.



Instead of all charming 'n' shit like I am now.

[Bullwinkle925]

13. hey - we'll take you as you are - any old way!

[Sequoia]

10. I like the looks on the faces of kids when I tell them about:

1) No indoor plumbing at gramps, outhouses and creeks to draw water from.

2) Taking baths in those grey tubs you see strapped to old cars during the Dust Bowl days

3) No copiers, electric typewriters
4) Gas at 19 cents per gallon

5) Only three TV stations, NBC..CBS...ABC and PBS late 1960s.

6) 45rpm records playing on a Hi-Fi

7) Teachers could whip you in class

8) High paying executives made $25,000 per year

9) Communists were going to take over the world

10) Rotary phones

[Bullwinkle925]

12. I actually miss the rotary phones . . . .

and the old telephone #'s like: DAvis 1 -9403 (my childhood #).
I also miss the 45's and the HI-FI's.

Damn straight I miss gasoline @ 35 cents/gal.

[Sequoia]

14. I still have a powder blue princess phone.

And you know what, when we had a power outage that was the phone to use ! A couple years ago I had it plugged in and a kid wanted to call his dad and looked at the phone all confused and asked, "How do I use this thing !"

[Bullwinkle925]

16. GET OUT!!!

are you series?

[Sequoia]

17. Hell yes!

And when it rings....all jingly and stuff.

[Bullwinkle925]

18. sigh . . . .

my favorite job of all time involved telephones . . . .


switchboard, actually!




man - i could throw those cords around like nobody's business.

i miss that job.
:cry:

[Sequoia]

21. Um-m-m-m, you're a doll !!!

[Iggo]

19. Now that I'm closer to 50 than 40...

...I'm really liking my white hair. In fact, I can barely wait 'til it turns all white like my dad's.

That'll be cool.

[palincomparison]

20. That is truly inspiring! Thank you!

This is coming from a woman in her early 40s who has found it a bit of a transition these last couple of years. I didn't have the cliched fear of turning 40, but I just noticed the little things: grey hairs, people calling me 'ma'am' (ouch!), and just the awareness of the passage of time. I became quite maudlin listening to the radio and hearing all the songs that reminded me of adolescence. But I know that this too shall pass.

[Bullwinkle925]

22. you're very welcome.

i do have my days, you know, but all-in-all i'm happy that i'm here and that i have my health intact.
it's a fact that those who make it to their *peak* years will go through the same changes that we have faced and are facing.
the ability to handle the changes with grace and humor help one go through it a bit more gently.





(these are purportedly to be women in their 50's)

[LisaM]

23. I think the real problem is that the last 8 years have been such a setback

It doesn't seem fair somehow. I can't really explain what I mean, but everything's just gotten WORSE. Of course, it's not exactly like living through the Depression or the Dust Bowl or a war, but on the other hand, the prospect of any amount of time with Sarah Palin in any position of power just means the possibility of 8 more years of CRAP. I resent aging through the Bush years. I have nothing to show for it, and the city I live in is just getting worse by the minute.

[Bullwinkle925]

24. i understand what you're saying . . . .

there seems to be a major depression of spirit in this country - with good reason.
i feel as if i haven't been able to breathe in the past 8 yrs. and it really makes me angry that i had to think about this debacle at the same time that i was dealing with my husband's illness.
i was thinking just the other day how unfair (but, yes, i know, life IS) that my mother died under the Reagan reign and my husband left us under GWB.

it is funny how we connect the dots in our lives.

[LisaM]

25. Yep, although I was always somewhat relieved

that Steve Allen, whom I truly admired, died just before the recount debacle and never had to see it. Funny how we think of those things.

[Bullwinkle925]

26. isn't that funny that you felt that way?

just a way to put salve on a wound, i suspect.